SocialMediaLab workshop - University of Exeter - 30 June 2017

This page provides resources for the SocialMediaLab workhsop run by Robert Ackland (Australian National University) at the University of Exeter, 30 June 2017.

The aim of the workshop is to outline the main features of SocialMediaLab. We will focus initially on YouTube data collection but will also cover the other data sources (Facebook, Twitter) if there is interest and time permits. Below, there are also scripts covering an introduction to SNA with R/igraph and an introduction to text analysis in R: again, we will look at these if we have time, and there is interest.

If you would like to look at related content, try the SocialMediaLab page. Also, a 5-day course run earlier this year provides additional content that we will not be able to cover in this workshop.

SocialMediaLab collects Twitter, YouTube and Facebook data from the respective free APIs. If you want to collect data you will need to arrange API access. You can find details on how to get API access here.